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1. For all that’s been done, there’s a long road still ahead: A map pocked with blue and green dots, mostly hugging Calgary’s rivers, is pinned to a wall in Recovery Operations’ office on the second floor of City Hall. Blue dots mean the damaged building, pathway or other project is restored; green dots mean there’s more to go. An awful lot of the dots are green, one year on.

Mayor Naheed Nenshi on Tuesday pivoted away from his campaign talk about a slate of pro-developer candidates out to thwart his agenda, now that two members of the group in his crosshairs were elected as councillors. Ward 4 Councillor-elect Sean Chu and Ward 2’s Joe Magliocca both denounce the $52-million tax hike the mayor and previous council supported, and neither are in for Nenshi’s push to hike the developers’ share on new suburban infrastructure costs to 100 per cent from 77 per cent.

Fresh from his upset victory in Ward 8, councillor-elect Evan Woolley plans to follow his big win with a series of small ones. Woolley, who defeated two-term city councillor John Mar on Monday, based much of his campaign on advocating for inner-city communities.

While the identity of Calgary’s 2013-2017 mayor after Monday is in little doubt, it’s less certain whether he’ll be working with a status quo council or have to deal with a conservative mini-revolution. In addition to new councillors elected in Wards 1 and 2, several inner-city aldermen are expected to have tough fights for their jobs tonight.

Naheed Nenshi entered his re-election campaign for mayor as an overwhelming favourite, battled like a feisty underdog and exited as a triumphant victor. The purple wave that put Nenshi into the mayor’s chair in 2010 turned into a tsunami Monday night.

John Mar, 44, is seeking re-election in Ward 8 having served on council for the last six years. Mar says, if elected his priorities will be rebuilding after the flood and pushing for the Revitalising our Communities initiative.

Eight food trucks was a dandy number for Margie Hope when she launched Blam!Wich when Calgary’s craze began two years ago. There was competition, but a limited amount, making it easy to find a lunchtime spot. And the novelty of the trucks — just like in Vancouver, Portland, Ore., or other cities — meant business buzzed and the living was easy for Hope and her fellow truck owners.

Calgary’s Downtown West neighbourhood isn’t short on residences. With nine condo buildings and several apartment blocks, the area has the feel of a gated community — and some suggest it lacks the spirit of other urban streets. Most people do little more than emerge from their parkades, drive to and from work and ride the elevator to their homes, says Gary Young, president of the Downtown West Community Association.

City council’s longest serving alderman announced his retirement Friday. Dale Hodges — who represents Ward 1 — will not seek re-election in October. He was first elected in 1983 and has served alongside five mayors, including former premier Ralph Klein, as well as 50 alderman.

Rather than tap city reserves that sit at record levels, Mayor Naheed Nenshi wants to use two years of the controversial $52-million tax hike in anticipation the province and Ottawa won’t fully cover Calgary’s flood recovery costs. The plan, released Monday, is facing early resistance from his colleagues because it presupposes the Redford government’s pledges aren’t reliable and seems to defy the public consultation council did before the disaster.

Hamida Virji has been doing her usual business this week selling Simpkins sweets, Pontefract cakes and Marks & Spencer biscuits. What’s different, though, is the chatter with her regular customers, many of whom hail from across the pond.

After two votes in his first two council meetings as alderman, John Mar approved the $700 million that officials told Mar and colleagues would deliver the six-station west LRT through his ward. That budget, it turned out, was about $700 million short of what the city needed to deliver the full line, after all the community demands, side projects, land and borrowing costs were factored in.

As the waters steadily rose in the two rivers flowing into Calgary and an evacuation notice came down for a number of neighbourhoods, including Mission, staff at Wurst took precautions. Predicting a couple of inches of flooding in the basement of the beer hall, they raised all the computer equipment onto milk crates and general manager Chris Rosamond sandbagged the doors.

On Friday, as the Stampede rodeo and midway return at full throttle, residents in the condo towers across the street should be able to finally move back into their homes. But there will be no elevator at the 23-storey Sasso highrise. No fire alarm system.

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